Anthropology: The Basics
Peter Metcalf, 2005
224 pages
Read in 2026.07
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✔ A textbook for the beginners of anthropology
✔ Explains its history and different schools
★★★★☆ The content of this book is very interesting, but, being basically a textbook, it is not a fun read. For anyone who's encountering the study of anthropology for the first time.
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The content of this book is very interesting, but, being basically a textbook, it is not a fun read!
It covers historical aspects of anthropology, different schools and how to be critical their own history.
Must be a perfect read for anyone who will be studying it at a uni, from here, you can pick books listed in "further reading" section at the end of each chapter.
If not, it'd be more fun to pick a more "popular" ones.
The most interesting part is the "critical anthropology" as we can easily guess anthropology has changed, it's not about going to an isolated island where they don't have TV, it's more about finding ever changing cultures in the backyard.
After all, it is unnatural for human being to stay in one fixed point without changing.
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